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Jordan Bardella is the president of France’s National Rally (RN). The party, whose platform is focused on reducing Muslim immigration and the Muslim presence in France, now is leading in the polls, and Bardella is widely expected to win the French presidency when the elections are held in eighteen months. He recently gave a long interview to The Telegraph of London, discussing his future plans, including a political alliance with Nigel Farage, head of the Reform Party in Britain, who, like Bardella, has made controlling immigration the central theme of his campaign.
The complete interview can be found here.
Bardella blasts the current one-in, one-out migration swap system launched by Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron as a cosmetic sticking plaster….
“The right of asylum will be abolished. Asylum applications will be processed outside the country, namely in the embassies and consulates of the countries of departure, and there will be national priority,” he predicts.
“That means that French citizens, without distinction, will have ‘priority access to social housing and social assistance.’”
This will be a change from the current arrangement, whereby immigrants granted asylum status are being given “priority access” to welfare benefits, including housing. The French poor are the ones who suffer most from this bizarre state of affairs.
Meanwhile, he will push Brussels, which he predicts will be increasingly led by various insurgent right-wing groups to turn Europe’s border force, Frontex, into a “true coastguard, rather than playing immigration welcome hosts, and as a taxi service for NGOs, who pick up migrants and bring them back to European countries.”…
“But in the meantime, he backs Franco-British patrols, but also, interestingly for a nationalist, pushbacks should migrants reach British shores.
By “pushbacks” is meant that the British will “push back” to French shores the boats loaded with migrants who keep arriving from Calais.
Bardella is alarmed at the visible transformation of France by the presence of millions of Muslims — some six million already — now in France, and at the failure of Emmanuel Macron to put a stop to the hundreds of thousands of new migrants that pour into France each year.
He points to a poll last month (if one whose methodology has been questioned), which suggests young French Muslims now place Sharia law above the laws of the Republic.
“You only need to go out into the street. I grew up in Seine-Saint-Denis [a high-immigrant suburb of Paris]. You see five-year-old children wearing Islamic veils. I think the veil is not desirable, even less so for five-year-old children. And once again, I never attack Islam as a faith or as a spirituality. I am an agnostic friend of Christianity.
“But I don’t want my country to become an Islamic republic. I don’t want us to have private courts that apply Sharia law. I don’t want us to have sports halls where women are on one side and men are on the other. I am opposed to the abaya [a body covering worn by many Muslim women]. I think it should simply be banned.
“And there are a lot of people, the majority, who believe you can love your country, love your culture and love your identity, and want to preserve it without being called a right-wing extremist, a fascist.
“And that’s what people can’t stand anymore. It’s the difference between the somewheres and the anywheres. People are from somewhere. They don’t want to disappear. They have a heritage, they have a history, they have a culture. One can understand this feeling. It’s legitimate.”
Jordan Bardella is focused on the threat to France, its values and its people, from the Muslim immigrants who continue to flood into the country. He wants to make France the least welcoming country for those immigrants in all of Europe, saying this outright: “My ambition is to make France the least attractive country for mass immigration in Europe.”
He wants not just to halt such immigration, but to send many Muslims already in France — both illegals, and those who are legal but have committed crimes — back to their countries of origin. Deportation orders will in his administration lead to immediate and forcible expulsion; it will no longer be possible for migrant scofflaws to ignore those orders and remain in the country. Bardella is highly likely to become the French president within the next eighteen months. I can’t wait. Can you?
